A controversial rule restricting speech about Israel was dropped after artists abandoned festival lineups in Germany’s techno mecca.

A controversial rule restricting speech about Israel was dropped after artists abandoned festival lineups in Germany’s techno mecca.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Even if you believe Israel to be completely justified in everything they do, there should never be a blanket ban on criticizing the methods of a country at war.

    • MrCookieRespect@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The ban wasn’t on criticism it was on their blunt antisemitism and terrorism support. There has been lost of criticism in Germany about Israels methods.

      • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Sure, it was, at least according to the article. Emphasis mine:

        which explicitly forbids any speech that “questions Israel’s right to exist” or criticizes the country’s occupation of Palestinian land.

          • rickyrigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Wanting foreign invaders out of the land they stole almost a century ago is not antisemetic.

                • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOP
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                  8 months ago

                  According to zionists and their allies, only.

                  Take a look at what Jewish Voice for Peace have to say:

                  Our Approach to Zionism

                  Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.
                  (…)
                  Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations, systematically separating Palestinians from their homes, land, and each other. Zionism, in practice, has resulted in massacres of Palestinian people, ancient villages and olive groves destroyed, families who live just a mile away from each other separated by checkpoints and walls, and children holding onto the keys of the homes from which their grandparents were forcibly exiled.
                  (…)

              • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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                8 months ago

                It is, its idiotic and they stole the land as well.

                I know you and your ilk don’t care about that, but no they didn’t. The Palestinians of today are the same Palestinians of 2000 years ago. Palestine wasn’t only Jews.

                • MrCookieRespect@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  And yet they killed all the jews and whats before that? Our history is a little longer than 2000 years… About 12000 years to be specific. (if we take the first city as the start of human civilization)

                  Also Judaism is a lot older than Islam, wich is even younger than Christianity, wich itself is based on Judaism.

                  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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                    8 months ago

                    And yet they killed all the jews and whats before that?

                    No they… didn’t? I’m not even sure what you’re talking about. Zionists tend to refer to some nonexistent Arab genocide of all inhabitants of Palestine so they can conveniently claim that the people currently living there “stole” it; is that what you mean?

                • MrCookieRespect@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  And yet they killed all the jews and whats before that? Our history is a little longer than 2000 years… About 12000 years to be specific. (if we take the first city as the start of human civilization)

                  Also Judaism is a lot older than Islam, wich is even younger than Christianity, wich itself is based on Judaism.

                  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                    8 months ago

                    You realize both the Palestinian and Jewish people are descendants from the people that lived on the land back then, right? We literally have evidence of that.

                    Like, just because your RELIGION is Islam or Christianity, that doesn’t mean you can’t be GENETICALLY Jewish. In fact there’s this whole thing WITHIN Judaism regarding ethnic Jews vs non-ethnic Jews…

                    You seem to be arguing about the Jews rights as a race, but conflating it to religion. Because if it was about “race”, then Palestinians are entitled to the same land as Israel claims.